Definition of Grandbaby

1. Noun. (informal) A young grandchild. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Grandbaby

1. [n -BIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grandbaby

grandaddies
grandaddy
grandads
grandam
grandame
grandames
grandams
grandas
grandaughter
grandaughters
grandaunt
grandaunts
grandbabe
grandbabes
grandbabies
grandbaby (current term)
grandbairn
grandbairns
grandboomer
grandboomers
grandchild
grandchildless
grandchildren
granddad
granddaddies
granddaddy
granddads
granddam
granddams
granddaughter

Literary usage of Grandbaby

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Red Rugs of Tarsus: A Women's Record of the Armenian Massacre of 1909 by Helen Davenport (Brown) Gibbons (1917)
"Your grandbaby will open its eyes five thousand miles from its grandmother. The family heirlooms must wait for the second grandbaby. ..."

2. Four Years in the Underbrush: Adventures as a Working Woman in New York (1921)
""My grandbaby's awful sick!" There was no use trying to reason with her, trying to explain. Besides, it was a very small favor to ask for a ..."

3. Youth Violence: Developing Local and State Solutions Hearings Before the edited by Fred Thompson (1998)
"They have accepted the grandbaby and we are moving forward. So, we could not have done that without the flexibility of this money to do it. ..."

4. Elizabeth Buffum Chace, 1806-1899: Her Life and Its Environment by Lillie Buffum Chace Wyman, Arthur Crawford Wyman (1914)
""Basle, 9th mo., 2nd, "My dear fatherly boy: — "We arrived here yesterday and found thy letters announcing the arrival of the grandbaby. ..."

5. Some Reminiscences of a Long Life: With a Few Articles on Moral and Social by John Hooker (1899)
"Mrs. Bowles worried herself because of a sick grandbaby into her own bed, and hasn't left her room for three weeks, and I have become so miserably dyspeptic ..."

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